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grab English

Meaning grab meaning

What does grab mean?
Definitions in simple English

grab Verb

— If you grab something, you quickly reach out and take it in your hand. A strong hand grabbed her arm and pulled her backward. I stood up quickly and grabbed my purse from the back of the chair. He grabbed a handful of nuts from the bowl. — If something grabs the headlines, it suddenly becomes a major news story. Scientists at the school grabbed headlines last week with their discovery of a new kind of fat.

grab Noun

— If you make a grab for something, you try to get it. I made a grab for his hand and the knife flew out the door. With the weak government, observers believe that the military might make a grab for power.

grab

— verb (= catch, take hold of) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of Catch the ball! Grab the elevator door! — verb (= snap up) get hold of or seize quickly and easily I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale — verb make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask — verb obtain illegally or unscrupulously Grab power — verb take or grasp suddenly She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room — verb (= seize) capture the attention or imagination of This story will grab you The movie seized my imagination — noun a mechanical device for gripping an object — noun (= catch, snatch, snap) the act of catching an object with the hands Mays made the catch with his back to the plate he made a grab for the ball before it landed Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion

Synonyms grab synonyms

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grab English » English

seize snatch catch grasp take clutch grip hold capture nab take hold of wrest grapple get arrest snap touch pick up apprehend trap snag pinch clasp catch hold of vie usurp snatch up snap up snaffle clamp utilize take hold tackle scratch scramble for receive have get hold of embrace compete captivate wrest something from someone take in hand swoop stick steal squeeze reach press prehend

Topics grab topics

What do people use grab to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Take somewhere

Take something from somewhere

Conjugation grab conjugation

How do you conjugate grab?

grab · verb

Examples grab examples

How do I use grab in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Grab this.
The man made to grab at me.
Grab him.
Grab as much as you need.
Grab hold of this.
Grab my hand.
Grab Tom.
Let's go grab a burger or something.
Let's go grab a burger.
Do you want to go grab a bite somewhere?
Why don't you go grab us a couple of beers?
Grab a rag and help me clean up this mess.
I had to grab her to keep her from falling.
To catch the bull, grab its horns.
Grab him! Don't let him get away.
Headlines are supposed to grab the reader's interest.
Just grab your bag and follow me.
Grab that.

Movie subtitles

All right, I'll go grab my things.
Just take and grab.
Why don't you come in, get a drink, and I'll grab it for you.
Um. (clears throat) I want to grab your gun.
Were you gonna grab his gun?
We've got to grab every chance she gets!
Now, lads, let's grab what we can and be on our way home.
What I meant was, you're gonna be here all winter and I'm stuck with the hotel anyhow, why don't you grab me until you can make other arrangements?
Grab him.
Grab your rifles!
Grab the rope.
As soon as this party's over, you grab Belinha and a plane and put an end to all of this nonsense.
Grab these guns.
Grab the next bus back to Miami.
Grab a plate. Eat with me.
We're gonna grab his daughter and take her to the old barn.
Grab the rope. One jerk to start, and two to stop.
Grab it and run like.
Grab his feet.
Come on, you fellas. Grab these guns.
Oh, let me for to grab your lipsky. No.
Take my advice. Grab the next bus back to Miami.
Okay, grab a car and stay with them.
You have to grab it!
Pilfering pennies from other children's lockers at school. then a little pocket picking, then a spot of car pinching. then smash and grab and so on to plain burglary.
When he runs after the rock, you grab the paper.
You grab a taxi to the church.
Grab whatever you can get.
If I grab and marry Sejin Group's daughter or etc., the lotto prize amount?
I want to grab your gun.
Tima, grab my hand!
Hurry, grab my hand!
Come on! Grab your rifles!
You can almost reach it and grab the big dipper by the hand.
So close down that you can almost reach up and grab them.
Can you reach up and grab them in Havana?

News and current affairs

At one end of its spectrum of meanings, conservatism has (over the last two decades) come to be viewed as promoting too much of a civic life of greed and grab.
There is no green light for opportunistic predators in and around the Kremlin who now control Yuganskneftegaz to grab other companies' assets at will.
The chief victim of their land-grab was Bosnia, which they divided and ravaged through various proxies.
For Tocqueville, the grab for centralized power by the absolutist Bourbon monarchs, followed by the French Revolution and Napoleon's Empire, had destroyed the good with the bad in France's neo-feudal order.
So far, the big countries have been able to get away with their power grab because the small ones have been too disunited to launch an effective counterattack.
An infrastructure program oriented in this way - as opposed to a grab bag of politically expedient shovel-ready projects - should be able to muster conservative support.
On the right is Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister (and briefly the economy minister), whose political rise took place within the grab-bag framework of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
The question now is which leader in Brisbane, if any, will grab the global megaphone and speak out.
While these seem to be a grab-bag of achievements, they point to a single message: the world community is finding new ways to cooperate, even against a backdrop of terrorism and global recession.
Every politically active person in the country understands the reality of this power grab.
Before its reunification with mainland China, many people expected the former British colony to grab headlines as Beijing progressively stripped its freedoms.
Breakthrough crops, fertilizer subsidies, and aid campaigns may grab the headlines, but it is the right-to-food movement that holds the greatest promise for ending hunger.
First, the identity of the single European banking supervisor remains undecided, and the ECB has seen an opportunity for a power grab.
Pakistani liberals may be right that their country is invulnerable to an Islamist power grab.
The failure to locate Saddam's WMD's is putting America's grab for Iraqi oil into sharp focus.
They are getting away with their power grab even though it goes against the Maastricht Treaty, which excludes nationality as a criterion for membership on the Executive Board.
Taiwan, on the other hand, does not grab our attention, because it is stable and flourishing economically.
In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.
So now we have reached the tragedy's fourth act, in which Russia attempts to grab eastern Ukraine, and the West responds.
This land grab, which is occurring mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, constitutes a major threat to the future food security of the populations concerned.
For the sake of the planet, all of us need to grab a bucket.
The Taliban, with the active support of the Pakistani military, would certainly make a run for Kabul to replay the 1996 power grab.
An analogous power grab is being attempted in Africa.
The rise in food prices is leading to a land grab, as powerful politicians sell foreign investors massive tracts of farmland, brushing aside the traditional land rights of poor smallholders.

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